Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-06-23

requires method. accuracy, organiza-
ton, industry, economy, discipline,
tact, knowledge and capacity for adapt
ing means to ends. All this is of the
essence of business, and hence business
habits ought to be cultivated by girls
who aspire to succeed in life. Mr..
Bright has said of boys: "Teach boy
arithmetic thoroughly, and he is a made
man." WhyP Because it teaches him
method, accuracy, value, proportions,
relations. But does not girl require
to learn arithmetic as much as does a
boy? She does; for when she becomes
a wife, if she is not up to her business
that is, the management of her do
nestle affairs in conformity with the
simple principles of arithmetic
will, through sheer ignorance, be LA
bic to commit extravagances which
may be most injurious to her family
peace and comfort. Method, which is
the soul of business, is also of great
Importance in the home. The unpunc-
tual woman, like the unpunctual man,
occasions dislike because she consumes
and wastes time. To the business
man time is money; but to the bust
ness-woman method is more-it is
peace, comfort and domestic prosperity.
The dying pauper, in the old story,
was told by the beadle that Heaven
was not for ''the like of him." and that
he ought to be very thankful to have
another place to 60 to. If home is
what women make it. not a few hus-
bands have to reflect with sorrow that
there is no heaven of domestic felicity
for "the likes of them"
The cause of many mans ruin has
been the middle in his own house, the
responsiveness of his own fireside, so
that he has been driven to find an ap-
| pearance of cheerfulness in the inn and
public house. While he has been learn
ing habits of dissipation that have cul-
minated in the ruin of his body and es-
tate, his wife, meanwhile, sitting at
home nursing her wrath to keep it
warm" has become soured and chron-
ically ill-tempered. A man must be a
miracle Of patience if, on returning
from the fatigues Of his daily labor,
and finding black fire, the sitting
room in litter, his children squalling.
and his wife vexed and annoyed at her
incapacity to correct the muddle, he is
not also touched with the like infirmity
and becomes fretful and impatient. A
clean, fresh and well-ordered house ex-
ercises over its inmates moral no less
than physical influence, and has a
direct tendency to make the members
of the family sober, peaceable and con-
siderate Of the feelings and happiness
of each other.
| In a cemetery little white stone
marked the grave of loved little girl
and on the stone was chiseled these
words: "a child Of whom her play.
mates said 1T was easier to be good
when she was with us.
| A similar epitaph might be placed
over the grave of every woman, who
when alive, was a center of order
Even if a girl never is destined to mar
ry or manage home of her own, hab
its of order are no less necessary. Sh,
probably has not much money, ant
finds it difficult to get new clothes
Care and tidiness make old garments
look better than the new ones of ricl
!; girls who take no care of them.
gown brushed and folded, or hat o.
bonnet regularly put away safe from
dust as soon as done with, will lool
well four times as long as one that i
thrown aside anywhere when taken off
DO not then, even in reference to you
own personal belongings, despise tina
good old rule: "Have place for ever,
thing, and always put every thing il
its place" When choosing wife
man should, without letting her know
she was being tested, ask the girl he i
thinking of to find him something be
longing to her in the dark. II she is
as she ought to be, a center of order
she will easily be able to do so.
, Women complain that tits more diff
, cult for them to get work than it is TO
men. The editor of provincial pape
T was talking to me the other day abou
the large number of MS. stories sen
to compete for prizes which he had t
read. Knowing that he had two cleve
daughters, suggested that they Nigh
help him. "Yes," he said, "the
might, and they have at differen
times undertaken to do so; but the
will never do just what ask them as
want it done, and at the right time
My daughters vex me with their ur
punctual, unmethodical ways of wori
ing, so prefer to do every thing my
self"
, Until women acquire and put int
! practice habits of order they can nc
expect their work to be appreciate
and we'll paid for.-London Queen
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